Question...

Jim Bonnet jimbo
Mon May 17 11:41:57 PDT 2004


Jim Bonnet wrote:
> Does anyone know what ALEVRIUS! is? It looks like some virus.. but 
> google doesn't have much on it..
> 
> I see it in etherape, haven't look at the code yet.. but will.
> 
> Thanks-
> Jim

Ok, after doing some traffic sniffing the machine that is showing up as 
alevrius! is some stupid person trying to make a connections to my samba 
server. Although samba is denying the connection, they are _still_ 
showing up in the tcpdumps and ethereal.

There are 2 or 3 different IP's associated with this joker from the same 
netblock.. So who knows...

I know... I need a firewall..Luckily FRY's is open today I think.. But 
until my wife brought home a laptop from work and I turned on Samba for 
her to use her linux home dir I never saw this crud before.. Im pretty 
well locked down other than this new samba daemon..

ho well...

You guys have a great holiday season...
Jim Bonnet




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